Salud America! launches health equity podcast

September 3, 2019

By Josh McCormack, Institute for Health Promotion Research, UT Health San Antonio On Sept. 3, Salud America!, a national communication organization focused on driving community change for the health of Latino and all families, announced its newest project: the “Salud Talks” podcast. This weekly production aims to expand the health equity conversation by approaching each […]




UT Health San Antonio receives CPRIT funding

August 27, 2019

SAN ANTONIO (Aug. 27, 2019)   ̶   UT Health San Antonio received more than $1 million from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas in its summer round of funding, announced Aug. 22. The largest award, $892,157, went to Yidong Chen, Ph.D., a professor of population health sciences in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long […]


Novel therapy studied for inherited breast cancer

August 27, 2019

UT Health San Antonio researchers have discovered a novel way to kill cancers that are caused by an inherited mutation in BRCA1, the type of cancer for which actress Angelina Jolie had preventive double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery in 2013. “This represents a new treatment for inherited breast and ovarian cancer, which are higher in […]




St. Baldrick’s Foundation awards $306,000 for Ewing sarcoma studies

August 27, 2019

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation has awarded $306,000 to David Libich, Ph.D., of UT Health San Antonio to further his studies of the childhood cancer Ewing sarcoma. Dr. Libich, who has a background in structural biology, is an investigator with the university’s Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute. He is an expert in the use of a […]





School of Nursing’s Narcan project for released inmates is first in the state

August 22, 2019

SAN ANTONIO (Aug. 20, 2019) ― The UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing is initiating a new program with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office to distribute the lifesaving medication Narcan to those leaving the jail. Narcan is a naloxone spray used to reverse opioid overdose. The announcement was made Aug. 20 at a press […]

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